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hussyknee · 3 months ago

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Trying to explain what the fuck just happened in Lankan politics today.

The leftist party has won 159 seats out of 218 in the Parliamentary elections. The single biggest landslide win since we broke from the British and achieved universal franchise in 1948.

Any party achieving a super majority in the executive and legislative is, objectively speaking, bad. It disables checks and balances, which is a catastrophic thing for any democracy, and the only two other times it's happened for us has irrevocably eroded the fabric of civic rights and democratic freedom. Also, the reason the NPP won the North and East is that the colonized, genocided and subjugated people there have no faith in electoralism anymore. The way this government has engaged minority issues has been utterly abysmal and now they've been rewarded for it.

On the other hand:

The winners. Are all. Grassroots. Candidates.¹

We have voted out every single career criminal that's been barnacled into the Lankan political arena since before I've been alive. The fascist party has only three seats.² The other fascists didn't win a single seat. The neoliberal legacy party won none. There are only forty people in Parliament that represent any sort of dynastic political legacy. After 76 solid years of nothing but political dynasties.

This is barely five years after the Rajapaksas swept in and absolutely glutted the Parliament with their family members and cronies end to end.

This is the illegitimate interim government we had for most of the last 18 months. We literally, physically, chased the Rajapaksas out of the country and this fucking demon set up a puppet government just so he could finally sit in that goddamn chair and be the despot he'd always dreamed of in exchange for letting them all come back. He's now gone. His entire circle is gone.

THEY ARE ALL FUCKING GONE.

In US terms, just imagine that, five years from now, when Trump's GOP has control of everything, the entire GOP and the worst of the Dems are all purged from Congress and Senate, the Green Party in control of all three branches of government under a pro-union left-wing President and an unmarried female LGBT rights activist Vice President, and the Dems reduced to barely 20% of the House.

This is my anthropology professor. She joined politics from the small nascent leftist coalition to help keep the government accountable. She's now the Prime Minister and the most popular Parliamentary candidate in the nation's history. (Edit: She was knocked off first place by a dude in the final result. Boo.)

(On the other hand— the woman who helped make me a radical anarchist and literally helped write a book on political dissent and resistance...now is the state. Uh.)

But there are so many women in Parliament! We had the lowest female representation in a South Asian Parliament and some of them were from the list of seats reserved for parties rather than elected ones. Most were either anti-feminist conservative embarrassments, widows and daughters of elite politicians and neoliberal shills. It's still only an increase of a few percentage points (Edit: from the previous 5% to 10% in the final result!) but now we have elected academics, feminist advocates, activists! There Is a representative for Malaiyaha Tamils in the Central Province for the first time in history and it's a young woman! (Edit: now it's two female Malaiyaha MPS!!) This is the plantation community that still live in conditions closest to the slavery the British forced upon them two hundred years ago!

I'm like. Completely mindfucked. To be very very clear, the NPP coalition formed around the nucleus of the JVP that used to be communist but haven't been in 30 years, they're now just social democrats who are left of places like the US and UK, whose "left" is now center-right. They're only threatening to the Western mainstream media for some reason who can't stop bleating about how we have a "Marxist" government now. In reality, the actual chances for radical reform are still quite low, and the opportunity for further erosion is quite high with a super majority government regardless of affiliation.

On the other hand:

What the fuck.

Sometimes living through historical events is really damn amazing.

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¹ Well, nearly. There are a few career politicians and a nepo baby but they aren't so bad either.

² Goddamn it, Baby Rajapaksa and Sri Lanka's answer to JD Vance have wormed their way in using the list of Constitutionally reserved party seats for non-elected members. FUCK the National List.

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mafuyuakgae · 5 months ago

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even if I came to love humanity in the end, there’s no proof I was ever here, right?

#omniscient reader's viewpoint #orv #kim dokja #yoo joonghyuk #my art #slow downer lyrics..i am applying them to dokja #please..i cant put the entire song lyrics but my god #'i called out an incoherent name in this new old world'#'i loiter in paradise the hope i was accustomed to blocked off my path of retreat'#literally agonised me #maybe this doesnt even make sense #the yjhs standing on the subway yellow lines overlooking the edge #but i kinda lost the plot here #its ok #havent even finished orv yet but whenever i think about the very concept of dokja i lowkey kms in my head for 80000 years #also 52hz's 'a dreamless sleep'#i guess just the sense of being untethered to the world with just this one thing keeping you still here #hits me hard #wait i linked the original slow downer version but obviously (see username) the niigo one is leagues better

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 3 months ago

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How much longer 'til your luck runs out?

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #Aaargh...I have so many thoughts about this scene.#This is a hard goodbye. I'm not your burden to bear. Not anymore.#This is the culmination of years of miscommunication. There was so much love there. They trusted each other with everything once.#I think it is easy to hear the anger in JC's voice and consider him the aggressor in this but listen to the words not the tone.#It is anger yes - but it is an anger born out of love.#Jiang Cheng wanted him to live - damn the rest of the world to hell if that's what it took. And Wei Wuxian chose strangers over him.#Sometimes two people who once flourished together become each other's worst wounds.#A goodbye to someone you once would have done anything for is a wound you don't easily recover from.#Jiang Cheng could have stood at Wei Wuxian's side and joined him. Consider though; as a sect leader his life is not his own anymore.#JC cannot just abandon the fledgling New Yunmeng Jiang without also dooming people.#And that is the lynch pin of it all. Both of them are trapped by duty. And the older they got the more tangled the web became.#The song I linked (Hi Epic fans) is such a good JC and WWX song that doesn't fit this scene exactly #But it does fit *them*. The words of warning that go dismissed. The Tactical Genius who continues to press on.#The seeds of doubt that grow louder until they creep towards mutiny. Ultimatly this *is* a mutiny! It *is* betrayal!#'You rely on wit and people die by it'. Is that not Wei Wuxian?#Just smashing my brainworms together over here. Don't mind me.

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grayziedee · 1 month ago

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!🎉

i think everyone is here🫠

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uncharted-constellations · 4 months ago

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The entire ALBW team

Links about to become Lorules #1 hytopian fabric exporter

#tloz #princess zelda #link #princess hilda #ravio #a link between worlds #triforce heroes #tri force heroes #loz redesigns round 2 #art #my art #redesigns #if you couldnt tell from zelda and mi-dna shit talking in their funny page i dont believe in the #-and they never saw each other again- type endings #they have check ins once a year #the guards have no idea whos dating who #but yes moving on #link gets his own ugly scarf #its dimensional portal colored #he also has little birthmarks around his eye #the teeth on the ravio hat are also earrings #hilda gets to be a goth queen #sheerow is listening very intently #he will tell ravio all the gossip later #i do like to think this link takes his black smithing knowledge and his new fashion skills #and starts making some cool custom armor when hes older #i like to think he made hildas collarpiece #heights go link->ravio->zelda->hilda #too many characters for me to worry if that reads or not lmao #funny page may come later

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hajimedics · 4 months ago

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despite how "friends from baby to adolescence" is such a rare and mostly unrealistic occurrence, I am enamored by a world where a bunch of fae kids hang out and piss each other off with the addition that one of them is a ticking time bomb that needs to be regularly defused

#fairly oddparents #fairly oddparents a new wish #peri fairywinkle cosma #fop irep #perirep #(if you squint)#goldie goldenglow #sammy sweetsparkle #senjart #mom and dad away for a 10 thousand year vacation? all alone? nothing to worry about! get into trouble with your friends #so you dont destroy fairy world everytime you remember your brother

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hinamie · 6 months ago

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u should think of tiny megu. To keep the stress at bay. You should draw him actually. Ooooo you wanna draw tiny megu getting the love he deserves so bad /j

he's with his 2 best friends

#my art #jujutsu kaisen #jjk #jjk fanart #jujutsu kaisen fanart #yuji itadori #megumi fushiguro #nobara kugisaki #itafushikugi #they r just BABIES #these 3 r the fiends of the playground . they make me SICK #thinks abt yuuji with his scuffed knees n the socks/crocs combo covered in dirt n mud still beaming at megumi with the force of 1000 suns #thinks about nobara making the two of them push her on the swingset :((((((#thinks about them climbing trees collecting cool rocks looking fr bugs being KIDS #i want to die actually. i shouldnt have drawn this #in other news! hina put yuuji in something Other than a plain white t shirt challenge clear!#u cant see all of it but th shirt says explore #N NOBARAS OUTFIT IS SO CUTE tbh i lowkey . want.#coordinated her bracelet n hairclip bc she Would. best dressed 8 year old #omg but speaking of best dressed 8 year olds #looking through kids fashion on pinterest fr ref and . WHO is dressing these kids children r not meant to look that put together #where r the obnoxious layers where r the clashing colours wtf is up with all this beige n cashmere n collars #i do not like this world we live in where toddlers can look more expensive than me #put those preschoolers in bright purple and orange as god intended >:(#anyway enjoy pls anon im miserable thinking abt the childhood none of them got to have <3

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redonionlover · 1 month ago

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rain world hyperfixation suddenly came back

#rain world #five pebbles #looks to the moon #my art #pov you meet weird bugs in the outskirts and theyre buying dinner #happy new year guys :)#waiting for the watcher now....

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fresh-snow · 1 year ago

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Following the footsteps of South Africa; Qatar, Oman, Malaysia have submitted statements in ICJ too.

Thank you South Africa for taking the first step.

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secretsimpleness · 6 months ago

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Sometimes I want to bring Morrigan but then I remember I play as a face-tanking rogue and I bring Wynne. Warden Cousland, Morrigan, Wynne / Dragon Age Origins (c) Bioware

#dragon age #dragon age fan art #comic #morrigan #warden cousland #healer #bioware #dao #dragon age origins #hero of ferelden #cousland #wynne #I'm back. I guess.#I did not notice at first but apparently I took a break from tumblr. I've already had several breakdowns over the dashboard.#(turns out I was on the 'for you' tab rather than the 'following' tab. the theme had changed as well. absolutely insufferable.)#I've felt really unconnected for a while but it actually feels better now? as if my tumblr mutuals was the missing link.#very healthy and hot of me ngl #so. I had a two week holiday this year and they were instantly slurped up. it went so fast!#there was this big football thing the week before my holiday - basically teams of teens come from all around the world to play etc.#I heard a girl tell her teammates that 'I'd love to travel on this bus every morning; happy people all around you; just add some music...'#she was also very excited when the bridge opened. the 'happy people' around her sighed bitterly and leaned back for a ten minute wait.#it is thankfully over now. the bus home is no longer stuffed full of football teams. but it's a fun experience for the players etc etc etc #well. in other thrilling news I went to spy on our sister shops during my time off. to see what they do differently. maybe steal some ideas #one store was like an instagram post with fancy teacups and stylish outfits. who knew a second-hand store could be so boring.#the other was like a man-cave with furniture and a passively-aggressive note by the toys stating that 'if u break it u pay. idiot. tnx<3'.#the man-cave was my favourite :)#rant over now! take care and bye etc!

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cinnamon-flame · 1 month ago

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The Exterior experience

#Happy new years to everyone!#I'm back with more rain world stuff #I saw some guy complain about the leg a bunch calling it the worst area in the game #but I kind of like both it and the underhang #also they got killed by white lizard a bunch for some reason #I didn't tho the only thing that kills me is my own hubris #and that one time when 3 grapple worms arrested me and then the blue spaghetti monster just swallowed me whole - the grappling worms lived!#art #rw #rain world #rain world fanart #slugcat #rw monk #rw lizard #cinnamon's doodles

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mythalism · 28 days ago

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call me crazy but there is a difference between treating your adult players like they are new to the world and treating your adult players like they have the memory of a goldfish and the vocabulary of a 9 year old